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L893.J ument No. 10. 205
m'dowell.
[See Report, 1891.]
The Home accommodates 10; now in charge, 9; able to
work, 1; helpless, 1; confined, 1, imbecile; weekly cost of
diet, $1.12$ per capita; George S. Tate, Marion, is keeper, at
$4.50 per capita p< r month, and all he makes on the place;
is a satisfactory officer; Dr. J. II. Gilkey is physician, at $20
per quarter; in Home December 1, 1891, 8; admitted to
March 1, 1892, 7; deaths, 4; discharges, none; can assist on
farm, 1
; premises do not present an inviting appearance, but
are as neat and clean as the buildings will admit; has 100
aires— 9 cultivated ; 8 head of stock ; crops of corn and vege-tables,
used for poor; children, 2, but they are with their
mother; not old enough to send off; punishment by keeper
of one woman, lightly, by whipping, for breaking out glass
and burning her clothes, shoes, etc. ; 10 persons assisted by
' outside relief, at £1.5C apiece.
Note.—The Commissioners of McDowell County resolved
at their June meeting, 1892, to furnish a comfortable Home
for the Aged and Infirm, appropriating for that purpose the
sum of $
MACON.
• We have no " Home" in this county ; have about 35 pau-pers
scattered over the county; helped to live at a cost of
about $1,200 annually.
/ MADISOV.
The " Home" is built on high ground near a large creek,
about 2 miles from Marshall; has V, buildings; 1 20x30, 1
. 15, and o 80 x 20 ; all of wood ; the first has 1 rooms, the
second 2, and the third 8; ventilation by windows and doors;
no fire protection ; heated by open fires ; accommodates 20
;
now in charge, 11 : able to work, 5; helpless, none ; confined

L893.J ument No. 10. 205
m'dowell.
[See Report, 1891.]
The Home accommodates 10; now in charge, 9; able to
work, 1; helpless, 1; confined, 1, imbecile; weekly cost of
diet, $1.12$ per capita; George S. Tate, Marion, is keeper, at
$4.50 per capita p< r month, and all he makes on the place;
is a satisfactory officer; Dr. J. II. Gilkey is physician, at $20
per quarter; in Home December 1, 1891, 8; admitted to
March 1, 1892, 7; deaths, 4; discharges, none; can assist on
farm, 1
; premises do not present an inviting appearance, but
are as neat and clean as the buildings will admit; has 100
aires— 9 cultivated ; 8 head of stock ; crops of corn and vege-tables,
used for poor; children, 2, but they are with their
mother; not old enough to send off; punishment by keeper
of one woman, lightly, by whipping, for breaking out glass
and burning her clothes, shoes, etc. ; 10 persons assisted by
' outside relief, at £1.5C apiece.
Note.—The Commissioners of McDowell County resolved
at their June meeting, 1892, to furnish a comfortable Home
for the Aged and Infirm, appropriating for that purpose the
sum of $
MACON.
• We have no " Home" in this county ; have about 35 pau-pers
scattered over the county; helped to live at a cost of
about $1,200 annually.
/ MADISOV.
The " Home" is built on high ground near a large creek,
about 2 miles from Marshall; has V, buildings; 1 20x30, 1
. 15, and o 80 x 20 ; all of wood ; the first has 1 rooms, the
second 2, and the third 8; ventilation by windows and doors;
no fire protection ; heated by open fires ; accommodates 20
;
now in charge, 11 : able to work, 5; helpless, none ; confined